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Importance Of The Daily Prescribed Prayers This article is about daily prescribed prayers. In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate The prescribed prayers are the pillar of the religion. A parable to understand the value and importance of the daily prescribed prayers If you would really like to...
Bliss and Benefit of The Prescribed Prayers What Bliss And Benefit Come With The Prescribed Prayers (Salah)? In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate O you people, worship… (The Quran 2:21) If you wish to understand the bliss and benefit that come with prayer, and the grave loss...
Hardship Of Daily Prayers This article covers the hardship of daily prayers. Does Praying Five Times a Day is Boring and Wearying? Once, a man of considerable age, great stature, and high social position said to me: ‘The prayer is OK, but five times a day is too much; it...
Daily Prayers Why Was Doing The Daily Prayer Prescribed Five Times A Day? You ask me the reasons for the apportioning of the daily prayers into five definite durations. I’ll take up just one of very many reasons. “In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate” Glory be to...
A Radiant Month In A Darkening World This article covers the Holy Month of Ramadan. The world is undergoing a series of depressions, one within the other. Humanity is restless and living with nightmares. Yet, Ramadan is once more on the way, appearing on the horizon like the silent full...
Fasting In The Month Of Ramadan This section consists of Nine Points, which explain Divine purpose for ordering the fasting during the month of Ramadan. “In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. It was the month of Ramadan in which the Quran was bestowed from on high as...
The Five Pillars of Islam The most important Muslim practices are the Five Pillars of Islam: the profession of faith, ritual prayer, alms-giving, fasting, and the pilgrimage to Mecca. Upholding the pillars is considered obligatory for all sincere followers of the Prophet Muhammad, male and female, Sunni and Shi’a, but...
Islamic Creed The shahada, the two-part statement that “There is no god but God; Muhammad is the messenger of God” is often popularly called “the Islamic creed” and its utterance is one of the “five pillars“. In Islamic theology, the term most closely corresponding to “creed” is ʿaqīdah (عقيدة) The first such creed...
A Brief Overview Of Islam The word “Islam” literally stems from the root “s-l-m” and the words “silm” and “salamah” which mean peace, and which indicate the “submission” or ‘surrender” of oneself to God Almighty, being obedient to His commands, embarking on a safe and secure path that leads to...
What Is Islam? Islam is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion teaching that there is only one God (Allah), and that Muhammad is the messenger of God. It is the world’s second-largest religion with over 1.8 billion followers or 24% of the world’s population, most commonly known as Muslims. Muslims make up a...
What Is The Qur’anic Concept of History? What distinguishes the Qur’anic concept of history from other philosophies is that, first of all, while philosophers of history or sociologists build their conceptions on the interpretation of past events and present situations, the Qur’an deals with the matter from the perspective of...
Wisdom (al-Hikmah): A Paradigm For Social Sunan – A Fresh Look at Islam – Wisdom and Islam Al-Hikmah or wisdom means a total insight and having sound judgment concerning a matter or situation through understanding cause and effect phenomena. Al-Hikmah constitutes one of the three major teachings of Prophet Muhammad...
Book And Wisdom (Kitab and Hikma) This article is about the Book (The Holy Quran) and The Wisdom The Qur’an and Hadith Books “Wisdom / حكمة (Hikma)” is a recurrent word in the Qur’an. “For this We sent a Messenger to you from among you to recite our Verses to...
Arabian Wisdom Arabian Wisdom, short collection of Islamic wisdom literature was originally published in the Wisdom of the East Series. It features gems from the Quran, the Hadith, and traditional proverbs and aphorisms. This is principally meant as an enjoyable read; unfortunately the sayings are unattributed, which makes it less...
About Wisdom In Islam This article covers About Wisdom in Islam. Wisdom has been variously defined throughout the ages. However, none of these numerous definitions have been enough to provide people with the real meaning of wisdom. This is because information seekers have not consulted an accurate source but tried...
What is Neo-Confucianism? Neo-Confucianism (宋明理學; Sòng-Míng lǐxué, often shortened to lixue 理學) is a moral, ethical, and metaphysical Chinese philosophy influenced by Confucianism, and originated with Han Yu and Li Ao (772–841) in the Tang Dynasty, and became prominent during the Song and Ming dynasties. Neo-Confucianism could have been an attempt to create...
Modern Philosophy The 17th and early 20th centuries roughly mark the beginning and the end of modern philosophy. How much of the Renaissance should be included is a matter for dispute; likewise modernity may or may not have ended in the twentieth century and been replaced by postmodernity. How one decides these...
19th-century Philosophy The 19th-century philosophy is also known as late modern philosophy. In the 19th century, the philosophies of the Enlightenment began to have a dramatic effect, the landmark works of philosophers such as Immanuel Kant and Jean-Jacques Rousseau influencing new generations of thinkers. In the late 18th century a movement known as Romanticism...
Yeshua, Torah And The Tree of Life Torah is also called the “Tree of Life,” as it points us to God as He reveals Himself in the Sephirot, and thus His salvation. Going back to the time of Moses, God Himself states that His Torah is the way of “life.”...
Finding Wisdom, Faith and Comfort in the Tanach The following is one in a series of columns in which local community members write about their favorite Jewish books. This week’s column is by Larry Hurwitz, M.D., a senior editor for Torah Productions, Inc. My favorite book is the Tanach, the...
